Uruguay at the 2020 Summer Olympics | |
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IOC code | URU |
NOC | Uruguayan Olympic Committee |
Website | www |
in Tokyo, Japan July 23, 2021 – August 8, 2021 | |
Competitors | 11 in 5 sports |
Flag bearers (opening) | Déborah Rodríguez Bruno Cetraro |
Flag bearer (closing) | María Pía Fernández |
Medals |
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Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Uruguay competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] Since the nation's official debut in 1920, Uruguayan athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, with the exception of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, because of its Uruguay's support to the United States-led boycott. Uruguay left the Olympics with no medals earned.
Sport | Men | Women | Total |
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Athletics | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Judo | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Rowing | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Sailing | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Swimming | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Total | 6 | 5 | 11 |
Uruguayan athletes further achieved the entry standards, by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event, one man was qualified by Universality place): [2] [3]
Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | |||
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Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
Déborah Rodríguez | Women's 800 m | 2:00.90 | 2 Q | 2:01.76 | 7 | did not advance | |
María Pía Fernández | Women's 1500 m | 4:59.56 | 15 | did not advance |
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||
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Distance | Position | Distance | Position | ||
Emiliano Lasa | Men's long jump | 7.95 | 13 | did not advance |
Uruguay qualified one judoka for the men's half-middleweight category (81 kg) at the Games. Alain Aprahamian accepted a continental berth from the Americas as the nation's top-ranked judoka outside of direct qualifying position in the IJF World Ranking List of June 28, 2021. [4]
Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Final / BM | |
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Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | ||
Alain Aprahamian | Men's −81 kg | Bye | Pacek (SWE) L 00–10 | did not advance |
Uruguay qualified one boat in the men's lightweight double sculls for the Games by winning the gold medal and securing the first of three berths available at the 2021 FISA Americas Olympic Qualification Regatta in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [5]
Athlete | Event | Heats | Repechage | Semifinals | Final | ||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Bruno Cetraro Felipe Klüver | Men's lightweight double sculls | 6:42.85 | 6 R | 6:36.87 | 3 SA/B | 6:11.48 | 2 FA | 6:24.21 | 6 |
Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage
Uruguayan sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the class-associated World Championships, and the continental regattas. [6]
Athlete | Event | Race | Net points | Final rank | ||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | M* | ||||
Dolores Moreira | Women's Laser Radial | 23 | 11 | 17 | 31 | 23 | 24 | 22 | 10 | 12 | — | EL | 173 | 22 | ||
Pablo Defazio Dominique Knüppel | Mixed Nacra 17 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 11 | 18 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 19 | EL | 179 | 18 |
M = Medal race; DSQ = Disqualified; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race
Uruguay received a universality invitation from FINA to send two top-ranked swimmers (one per gender) in their respective individual events to the Olympics, based on the FINA Points System of June 28, 2021. [7]
Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Enzo Martínez | Men's 50 m freestyle | 22.52 | 35 | did not advance | |||
Nicole Frank | Women's 200 m individual medley | 2:18.93 | 27 | did not advance |
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